TRIBES AND TRIBULATIONS
If you want to understand what keeps going wrong in the Middle East, from Raqqa to Qatar, listen—at last—to what Gertrude Bell was saying 100 years ago.
K.J. Wetherholt is the publisher and executive editor of MIPJ: Media, Information, International Relations, and Humanitarian Affairs as well as a writer on modern war from World War I to the present. She is also the author of a book of literary fiction about war correspondents during and following the last weeks on the Western Front, The Illumination: A Novel of the Great War.